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[edit] "Closed"?

"Closed" (in this context) seems like a Briticism to me. I'd have to call such channels "ended," "cut," "stopped," or "done away with." (Yes, I know the policy on different Englishes, and I don't expect anything to change. I just wanted to make a comment.) Entire companies close down or fold while branches and franchises close or close down. Cable TV channels can be dropped by a cable company if the channel still exists, but the originating company ends, cuts, or stops the channels that they've done away with. Closing a cable channel is like pronouncing "Chianti" the way Hopkins did in Silence of the Lambs, a dead giveaway that it ain't American English. Well, that's one American's opinion. Boy, do I miss alt.usage.english. 68.89.149.2 16:35, 15 March 2007 (UTC)